Yixiao, China's ambassador to the WTO

Guo Lichen "My successor, who has in fact been my leader for so many years.　　"December 11, the Permanent Representative of China to the World Trade Organization, who has just finished its 9-year term in Geneva, Sun Zhenyu, Ambassador Plenipotentiary and Ambassadors, smiled at the airport and said to several media reporters including the first financial journal."　　In the eyes of familiar people, sun zhenyu The meaning of this joke is: before this, easy to be the Ministry of Commerce is responsible for contact Sun Zhenyu, issued a variety of authorized "backstage" Deputy minister.　　According to the Xinhua news agency, Yi has been appointed as China's permanent Representative to the World Trade Organization, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Permanent Representative to the United Nations Office at Geneva and other Swiss international organizations. On the website of the Ministry of Commerce, he graduated from the Department of Economics of Peking University in 1977, and from September 1996 to January 1999 he was a master of world economy in Nankai University.　　The fundamentals of economics are solid. Easy to work in places including the Beijing Institute of Economic Research, Ministry International Liaison Bureau, to the U.S. Embassy of the three Secretaries of Commerce, Second Secretary, and then to ministry, Moftec International Economic and Trade Relations Division Two deputy Director, director.　　From December 1996 to July 2003, he was a deputy director and Director of the Department of International Economic and Trade Relations of the Ministry of Commerce.　　A number of Mofcom told reporters that before China's entry into WTO, the WTO Division has been vested in the Department of International Economic and trade relations, and after the entry into WTO, the expansion of business has been a separate bureau. From July 2003 to October 2005, he was a member of the Ministry of Commerce's party group and assistant to the Minister (in the meantime, he was deputy representative of international trade negotiations in April 2005). October 2005 member of the Ministry of Commerce, Deputy minister. His responsibilities include the Political Research Office, the International department, the World Trade department, the Exchange Centre, the International Trade association, and the WTO Research Institute.　　These efforts are also more relevant to multilateral negotiations. The work of the Chinese mission to the WTO is usually described as: the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Abroad is called the embassy, China's WTO department called the Mission.　　The Permanent Representative of China to the World Trade Organization, Ambassador and Plenipotentiary, is authorized by the competent authorities of the PRC to take charge of the daily work of the mission.　　Generally speaking, the conclusion of a negotiation, first of all, is the coordination of the relevant interest departments within the parties, and after reaching agreement, the delegation is authorized to go to the WTO.　　This time, easy to replace China's permanent Representative of the World Trade Organization, Ambassador Plenipotentiary, it is from the "backstage" issue of authority to the "front" to carry out the authorization. Sun Zhenyu has told our correspondent: "Easy (small quasi) Deputy Minister of specific guidance Doha round negotiations." He accompanied the minister in every major negotiation. "In fact, the Sun Zhenyu has long been engaged in multilateral (trade negotiation) work," he said.　　"So he will bring a new face to the World Trade Organization." Sun Zhenyu's description of the post of Ambassador to the WTO includes three aspects: dealing with trade disputes, studying how to fulfill China's "WTO accession" commitments, and pushing forward the Doha round negotiations. "In comparison with bilateral negotiations, multilateral negotiations involveAnd the benefit is more, the challenge is bigger. "As a new member of the United States and Europe and Japan, China has not joined the core negotiating circle of the four countries," he added. Until 2008, China became a core member.　　So far, China has begun to gain a say in many small-scale core consultations. From "understand" to "understand", and then to let others listen, this change is China's rising international status and economic strength. China's foreign trade volume was around 500 billion dollars in 2002. China's foreign trade is expected to break 2.9 trillion trillion dollars in 2010, according to the Ministry of Commerce.　　Of course, with the rise of the right to speak, trade friction and the sound of opposition will follow. A source said the external environment was expected to remain tight during the "Twelve-Five" period, mainly in the form of trade frictions between China and several major trading partners, as well as the continued pressure on the renminbi of some countries represented by the United States.　　To be sure, the ambassador to the WTO will face more new challenges. In June this year, the WTO published its biennial China Trade Policy Review Report (hereinafter "the report"). Since China's accession to WTO, the WTO has made three comprehensive deliberations on China, which differs from the two previous reports praising China for fulfilling its "WTO accession" commitments, and this report makes a rare comment on these disputes among members.　　According to reports from the European Union and American media, it is far more vocal than praise to be candid about the issue.　　In addition to the traditionally mentioned issue of IPR protection in China, the US side pointed out in the course of its deliberations that China's opening process was actually slowing down 2006 years later, and that the EU envoy, in a closed-door meeting, pointed out that China's policies were opaque and the investment environment deteriorated.　　Sun Zhenyu has told this newspaper that trade frictions are becoming more frequent and that 1/3 of the world's surveys are aimed at China this year. Referring to the post of WTO ambassador, we cannot fail to mention the two contributors to China's accession to the WTO, the chief negotiator of China's accession to the WTO, long and sun Zhenyu.　　At the beginning of 2003, he served as vice Minister of foreign Trade and Trade, as Secretary-General of the Boao Forum for Asia, an unofficial international organization. Several Ministry of Commerce people who worked with Sun Zhenyu to the reporter all use "velvet glove" to describe Sun Zhenyu. and Sun Zhenyu in the evaluation of the time, said: "He is a study of the problem of people, but also good at innovation, aggressive, in the negotiations often master initiative." ”